Educational Resources
This is a sampling of educational resources and downloadable handouts. Additional educational resources more specific to other areas (healthcare, youth, etc) are found on our other resources pages. This is a continuously evolving collection of resources - contact us at info@nipridealliance.com if you are seeking a specific resource.
A Guide for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students
Category:
Transgender
Transgender and gender nonconforming students have the right to be safe and to be yourself at school. That is why the American Civil Liberties Union and GLSEN have put together this guide to inform you of your rights.
A Resource Guide to Coming Out
Category:
Coming Out
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation helps LGBT people come out and start living openly. As coming out is a life long journey, the HRCF also helps LGBT people, as well as supporters, to live openly and talk about their support for equality at home, at work and in their communities each and every day.
A Resource Guide to Coming Out As Bisexual
Category:
Bisexual
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation improves the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people by working to increase understanding and encourage the adoption of LGBT-inclusive policies and practices.
A Resource for Providers by the Autism and Suicide Prevention Workgroup
Category:
Suicide Prevention
Many autistic people are LGBTQ+, and autistic LGBTQ+ individuals face a considerably heightened risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, beyond the already elevated risk seen in either group alone. Yet, suicide prevention approaches are not designed with autistic and LGBTQ+ needs in mind. This resource aims to begin filling this gap by addressing suicidality at the intersection of autistic and LGBTQ+ identities.
Advocate for Inclusive & Affirming Curriculum
Category:
Youth & Schools
GLSEN research shows that LGBTQ students who attend schools with a curriculum that is inclusive of LGBTQ people, history, and events experience a better school climate and improved academic outcomes. This Curriculum serves as a mirror when it reflects individuals and their experiences back to themselves. At the same time, the curriculum serves as a window when it introduces and provides the opportunity to understand the experiences and perspectives of those who possess different identities. An inclusive curriculum should be balanced and include diverse windows and mirrors for every student.
This curriculum is available to all teachers to reflect on their existing curriculum and identify ways to increase LGBTQ+ representation.
American Library Association: Library Bill of Rights
Category:
Policy & Research
The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.
Be Yourself
Category:
LGBTQIA+ 101, Coming Out
An information guide created for LGBTQ youth who are looking for answers.
Creating Safe and Welcoming Schools
Category:
Youth & Schools
HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools is the most comprehensive bias-based bullying prevention program in the nation to provide LGBTQ+ and gender inclusive professional development training, lesson plans, booklists and resources specifically designed for educators and youth-serving professionals. Our program uses an intersectional, anti-racist lens dedicated to actionable policies and practices. We uplift school communities with critical tools to embrace family diversity, create LGBTQ+ and gender inclusive schools, prevent bias-based bullying, and support transgender and non-binary students.
Educational Leadership: The Schools Transgender Students Need
Category:
Youth & Schools
In May 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education issued guidance to schools intended to provide transgender students with safe and inclusive learning environments. On the heels of this guidance, Ellen Kahn, the Human Rights Campaign's director of Children, Youth, and Families Program, offers advice for educators seeking to provide transgender students with a welcoming school culture. She describes key terms to be familiar with, urges educators to challenge their assumptions about gender, addresses ways to create a safe space, and suggests that educators take a collective approach to changing a school's climate for transgender students.
Ensuring Comprehensive Care and Support for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents
Category:
Transgender
As a traditionally underserved population that faces numerous health disparities, youth who identify as transgender and gender diverse (TGD) and their families are increasingly presenting to pediatric providers for education, care, and referrals. The need for more formal training, standardized treatment, and research on safety and medical outcomes often leaves providers feeling ill equipped to support and care for patients that identify as TGD and families. In this policy statement, we review relevant concepts and challenges and provide suggestions for pediatric providers that are focused on promoting the health and positive development of youth that identify as TGD while eliminating discrimination and stigma.
Faith in Our Families
Category:
Faith
Parents, families and friends discuss religion and sexual orientation or gender identity and tips on how to approach and re-evaluate their spiritual beliefs.
GLSEN National School Climate Survey
Category:
Youth & Schools
The GLSEN National School Climate Survey* is our flagship report on the school experiences of LGBTQ youth in schools, including the extent of the challenges that they face at school and the school-based resources that support LGBTQ students’ well-being. The survey has consistently indicated that specific school-based supports are related to a safer and more inclusive school climate, including: supportive educators, LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum, inclusive and supportive policies, and supportive student clubs, such as Gay-Straight Alliances or Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSAs).
GLSEN Pronoun Guide 101
Category:
LGBTQIA+ 101
This guide is created to help anyone learn how to use people’s correct pronouns. Everyone in your school community should engage in learning, educating, and advocating for the inclusive use of pronouns for all.
What Are Pronouns?
GLSEN Respect for All Policy Recommendations to Support LGBTQ Students
Category:
Youth & Schools
School and district leaders, educators, and school staff have a significant opportunity—and responsibility—to create learning environments in which all students can thrive and achieve their full educational potential. Fostering a sense of belonging and connectedness in school is crucial for putting all students on a path to success.
However, many LGBTQ students are left feeling unsupported in their schools. In order to ensure that school learning environments are supportive of all students, it is critical to implement specific policies and procedures that support LGBTQ youth, affirm their identities, promote safe and healthy learning environments, and advance equity and respect for all in our schools.
This resource provides education policymakers and practitioners, particularly at the district and school levels, with concrete recommendations related to creating safe and affirming learning environments that uphold the dignity of all students.
HRC LGBTQ Youth Report
Category:
Youth & Schools
In 2022, nearly 13,000 LGBTQ+ youth, from all 50 states and Washington, DC, participated in the 2022 Youth Survey, reporting on their health, well-being, and experiences across all aspects of daily life. The results of HRC’s 2022 Youth Survey reveal persistent, serious challenges for LGBTQ+ youth, continuing trends observed in the 2017 study. In many cases, the cards remain stacked against LGBTQ+ youth in terms of acceptance and support from their families, their mental health and safety in schools.
Healthy Children.org
Category:
Youth & Schools
There are many ways parents can promote healthy gender development in children. It helps to understand gender identity and how it forms.
InterAct Advocates for Intersex Law, Policy & Youth
Category:
Intersex
Intersex is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy. People are born with these differences or develop them at a young age. Genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy, or chromosomes can develop in many ways.
The problem is, children’s bodies are often changed for them because of shame and stigma. This includes surgeries to create a vagina, reduce a clitoris, move a urethra, or remove testes. Most surgeries happen before the age of two. We’ve worked with many of the world’s top human rights organizations. All agree: surgeries to change sex traits must be the individual’s choice.
That’s why interACT uses innovative legal and other strategies to advocate for the human rights of children born with differences in their genitals, chromosomes, hormones, and reproductive anatomy.
LGBT History Month
Category:
LGBTQIA+ 101
"LGBT History Month" celebrates the achievements of 31 lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender Icons each year. Each day in October, a new LGBT Icon is featured with a video, bio, bibliography, downloadable images and other resources. LGBT History Month sends an important message to our nation’s teachers, school boards, community leaders, and youth about the vital importance of recognizing and exploring the role of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in American history.
LGBTQ History
Category:
LGBTQIA+ 101
For all of us, learning an LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum can help us better understand our world and our differences. For LGBTQ students in particular, it can mean feeling safer at school and hearing homophobic and transphobic remarks less frequently, according to GLSEN research. That's why we're sharing the resources below, from an interactive timeline and coloring book to many other classroom resources.
Recognizing these benefits, former GLSEN Chapter leader Rodney Wilson, with the support of GLSEN's founder Kevin Jennings and many others, founded LGBTQ History Month in October 1994. While you can use these resources every October, they're perfect for use all year, so that students see the benefits year round.
A great resource you can use to learn and teach about LGBTQ history is Making Gay History, the critically acclaimed and award-winning podcast that brings LGBTQ history to life through the voices of the people who lived it. Listen to the podcasts below to hear about the lives and legacies of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, who were participants in the New York Stonewall riots in 1969.
Model School District Policy on Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students
Category:
Youth & Schools
https://www.glsen.org/activity/model-local-education-agency-policy-on-transgender-nonbinary-students
Transgender and nonbinary students have been a part of our schools and education system for decades. However, for many educators and administrators, awareness of the unique needs of these students represents new and sometimes confusing issues to consider. Together through this document, GLSEN and NCTE, are here to assist, to ensure that all students have a safe and welcoming educational environment.
Movement Advancement Project
Category:
Policy & Research
MAP's mission is to provide independent and rigorous research, insight, and communications that help speed equality and opportunity for all. MAP works to ensure that all people have a fair chance to pursue health and happiness, earn a living, take care of the ones they love, be safe in their communities, and participate in civic life.
Open Letter to Schools About LGBT Censorship
Category:
Youth & Schools
A letter to principals and educators explaining the legal requirement that public schools allow students to wear clothing or accessories with slogans or symbols that express support for LGBT people and issues.
Pan & Bi: A Handy Guide
Category:
Bisexual
This helps to answer one of the most frequent questions we get asked: “What’s the difference?”
Pronouns & Trans People
Category:
Transgender
One front and back handout addressing the many different types of pronouns people use to identify themselves, as well information regarding the proper use of pronouns and pronoun etiquette.
Pronouns 101
Category:
LGBTQIA+ 101
Pronouns are words used to refer to either the people who are talking (like “I” or “you”) or a person being talked about in the third person (like “she/her,” “he/him,” and “they/them”). Since some pronouns are gendered (“she/her” and “he/him”), it is important to be intentional about the way we use pronouns as we all work to create as inclusive an environment as possible.
Straight for Equality
Category:
Allyship
10 Things You Can Do to Be a Straight Ally. Visit their website at www.straightforequality.org to read the guide on being a straight ally.
Take the ALLY Pledge
Category:
Allyship
A printable pledge that includes four promises one agrees to when pledging to be an Ally/Straight for Equality Ally.
Talking About Suicide & LGBTQ Populations
Category:
Suicide Prevention
MAP works to ensure that all people have a fair chance to pursue health and happiness, earn a living, take care of the ones they love, be safe in their communities, and participate in civic life. MAP is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and donations to MAP are 100% tax-deductible. You can read more about MAP and the work we do on our About page.
Teaching Tolerance Guide for School Leaders
Category:
Youth & Schools
We’re dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights, dignity and freedom of the LGBTQ community in the Deep South and to removing barriers to equality.
The Genderbread Person
Category:
LGBTQIA+ 101
A teaching tool for breaking the big concept of gender down into bite-sized, digestible pieces.
Understanding Gender
Category:
LGBTQIA+ 101
The definition for gender, gender identity, and gender expression, along with information regarding the terms gender spectrum, gender expansive, and gender privilege. Language used when referring to gender, plus definitions of more gender terminology such as gender dysphoria, transsexual, and transphobia.
We Choose All of US
Category:
Empowerment & Affirmation
"We Choose All of Us" empowerment poem